Upcoming Exhibitions.
NAVA
Blenheim Gallery and Garden is a member of the National Association for the Visual Arts and represents artists throughout Tasmania.
The Summer Show
The Summer Show with Grace Gladdish, Gabrielle Falconer, Sarah Gabriel and Carlton Cox in January 2025 will take the focus of works on paper with either unique works or printed images.
A fresh start to the year with some great art that highlights each artists passion for their art.
Sarah, is drawn to bold floral arrangements & decorative fabrics, Sarah’s work on pianola rolls celebrates the natural world with our everyday interiors, whereas Grace has a focus on Tasmania’s mountain environment and endemic flora.
Gabrielle on the other hand is well read on colonial history and through her art tells the tales with fantastic imagined images, whilst Carlton has a strong focus on the physical landscape and place.
It will be an interesting mix of passion and artistic drive.
Erratics - Penny Mason
Erratics - Penny Mason
An exhibition which holds a great deal of engagement and exploration with works made over the last two years.
“Erratics explores my relationship with Tasmania’s landscape, its complex ecosystems shaded by my reflections on its histories of representation, the impact of my presence, what I see, what I overlook and what I forget.
The works can be read as landscapes viewed from above yet skewed by the unpredictable properties of watercolours that create potential fields, sites, voids and events.
The dispersed composition of wheeling spaces and drifting incidents recall dynamic particles in a kinetic field of the continuous transformation” says Penny .
Blenheim Gallery intend to host a forum during Penny’s exhibition with a focus on art in architectural and interior spaces. We will keep you posted with this event as well.
Denise Campbell "EDGELANDS"
“EDGELANDS” Denise Campbell
Island landscapes, the closeness to the sea and its edges, journeys and vessels and the confluence of built environments, spaces now devoid of any human presence, have always been important elements for work.
Legacies of exclusion can result in a unique landscape amongst the slowly decaying and rusting machinery and structures. The min disassembles a landscape and then re-assembles the pieces constructing images from many small parts.
In the most recent series of paintings and prints (loosely based around the central highlands) collage and mixed media are used instinctively, making images that pull in and out of focus the small details and the broader views; shifting light, subtle nuances of colour, marks blurred and vanishing, fleeting perceptions and visual sensations.
Gathering together aspects that are folded in; new appears to be layered on old and where surfaces are scratched or scarred, a hidden history is revealed before reaching their final recognizable or abstract forms.
Denise Campbell
December 2024
Season’s Greetings
Season’s Greetings
Jennie and Stephen Caswell would like to wish all clients, artists and friends a very Happy and Safe Christmas and New Year period.
Travel safe and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year at the opening of our Summer Show exhibition.
Feathers, fur, fins and foliage
Feathers, fur, fins and foliage exhibition
The Newfield artist group come together to exhibit at Blenheim Gallery as the final exhibition for 2024.
The group includes Julie Irvin, Gaynor Peaty, Justine Vaughan, Liz Royce, Rose McManamey and Jacqueline Senior and Julie Irvin who work in printmaking mainly but some works include other elements on paper.
They are a small group of printmakers interested in the natural environment. Each artist has been working on her own interpretation through themes such as “Feathers, Fur, Fins and Foliage.
We look forward to this exhibition at the end of November.
Courtyard & Garden Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden at Blenheim Gallery - Longford
Anita Denholm, Empty Nest copper and galvanised wire
Pamela Horsley “A Brush With Eden”
Pamela Horsley has been working on her new exhibition at Blenheim Gallery for the last 2 plus years.
This time “A Brush with Eden” is her second show at Blenheim Gallery. Pamela has embraced domestic still life and the landscape of the Cressy Valley in Tasmania. Poatina Village is home for Pamela and she spends much time on the East Coast of Tasmania with family members.
The paintings hark to the joy of living in a wonderful location where she can relish her subject matter and spend time both outside in the bush and within her studio.
This show is well worth a visit and continues to 1 November 2024.
Director’s Choice - A celebration of 10 years at Blenheim Gallery and Garden
David Hamilton “Wrapped Axe”
Gene McLaren - "Winter's Embrace: A Fusion of steel, light and fire”
Gene McLaren - “Winter’s Embrace: A Fusion of steel, light and fire”
Gene McLaren has been exhibiting at Blenheim Gallery over a number of years with his unique sculptures and each show has brought a new and refreshing angle to sculpture and his use of mixed metal materials.
This year will be no different, on the eve of winter solstice which symbolises the turning point of the year, with the gradual lengthening of daylight hours ahead. It is a time to reflect on the past year & welcome the gradual return of longer light.
Gene’s illuminated sculptural works will effectively light the Blenheim sculpture garden and gallery.
Over a glass of wine the opening evening will be something to remember and the exhibition then continues until 13 July 2024.
Catalogue now on website see Gene McLaren Artist tab
Penny Mason "To the Side"
Penny Mason “To the Side”
An opportunity to view and enjoy Blenheim Gallery artist Penny Mason’s recent works having undertaken an Artist residency at Scotch Oakburn College. Carmel Dilger, Community Arts Coordinator at Scotch Oakburn College is very pleased to invite you to our s.p.a.c.e. Gallery exhibition: Penny Mason, To the Side.
The exhibition will be opened Wednesday 1 May at 5:30 pm by Jennie Caswell, Director of Blenheim Gallery and Garden.
About the artist:
‘A graduate of the Tasmanian School of Art, (1970), and Monash University MFA (Research) (2004) Penny’s painting career spans four decades. Her main interests exist in ideas that circulate around the idea of landscape in the context of Tasmania, particularly the representation of land, country, sites, and views.
Her work is generated by using several randomising techniques while exploiting temperature, gravity, vibration and frost etching to create fields and surfaces that evoke landscape features and details within.
Penny has participated in many group shows and undertaken regular solo exhibitions since first exhibiting at the George Paton Gallery, Melbourne (1977). Recent solo exhibitions include; Weather Events, Moonah Art Centre, Contemplations, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston (2018), Floating Worlds, Raft south, Hobart (2016) and Found in Translation, s.p.a.c.e Gallery Launceston, (2014)’ (Penny Mason Artist Profile — Blenheim Gallery And Garden).
Penny is a finalist in the 2024 UniSQ Biennial Art Award.
Our gallery is open Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.
s.p.a.c.e. Gallery
85 Penquite Road
Please sign in at reception before visiting the gallery.
CARMEL DILGER
Community Arts Coordinator at Scotch Oakburn College
“The Vessel and other things”
“The Vessel and other things” is an exhibition which focuses on the object whether physical or painted and includes the work of renowned artists Dawn Oakford and other artists.
A part of daily life the “vessel” since Grecian times has been an object of admiration and this exhibition will highlight its significance in daily life.
Lorna Quinn and Gabrielle Falconer
Gabrielle Falconer “We would be butterflies”,
linocut on archival Japanese paper.
Blenheim Shapes in Spaces Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2023
Deceptive Tension - Gene McLaren forged stainless and corten steel
Peter Wright exhibition. Bush stick furniture, recent paintings, and watercolours.
Peter Wright exhibition. Paintings, watercolours and bush stick furniture.
Penny Mason Exhibition
18 February – 15 March 2023, Penny Mason exhibition.
Penny Mason a Tasmanian artist generates her work by using several randomizing techniques while exploiting temperature, gravity, vibration and frost etching to create fields and surfaces that evoke landscape features and details within.
Summer Show. An exhibition featuring gallery artists with works that focus on the landscape.
15 January – 15 February 2023
Summer Show
An exhibition featuring gallery artists with works that have a focus the landscape.
Image Alison Aplin On the Precipice.